Vocabulary
To protect or save resources for future generations
Conserve
It was during this time period that people migrated into North America
The Last Ice Age
The main factor that caused there to be over 300 separate and distinct cultures in North America before the arrival of Columbus.
Geography and Environment
These are the three motives of European Exploration
God, Glory, and Gold
He believed he could reach Asia by sailing west; he also ignited the Age of European Exploration in the Western Hemisphere and created the start of the movement of plants, animals, people, diseases, and ideas between the New and Old Worlds
Columbus
The term for a building typically used for living in.
dwelling
It is hypothesized that a landbridge between Asia and North America was exposed, which allowed Paleo Indians to migrate because of seawater being trapped in these large sheets of ice.
Glaciers
The Southwest, with limited rain, had a hot, dry climate. Their most commonly used building material was these types of bricks made from mud and baked in the hot desert sun.
Adobe
European Nations were looking for a trade route to this continent in the hopes of getting rich from trading in silk and spices.
Asia
He sailed for both the Dutch and the English. He sailed up a river in NY, and on his final voyages, he was left to die in a great bay after his crew mutinied.
Hudson
This term means really big animals. Most of them are now extinct.
Megafauna
Coastal Migration Theory
Homes for the Iroquois of the Northeastern woodlands. Made of branches and bark.
Longhouse
While Spain and Portugal focused their attention on South America, nations like France, England, and the Netherlands focused on North America as they searched for this sea route to Asia.
The Northwest Passage
He was the Conquistador of the Aztecs in Mexico
Cortez
This is the term for Spanish explorers and warriors who conquered much of the Americas in the 16th century
Conquistadors
This term refers to someone without a permanent home. Typically, hunters and gatherers that travelled in search of animals to hunt for food.
nomadic (or nomad, I will accept either)
These are the three things that most Native American groups had in common.
1. Religion linked to nature
2. Conservation of the land
3. Land belonged to everyone. No one personally owned land.
Both Cortez and Pizarro conquered large empires in the New World. These are the three reasons for their success in conquest.
1. They made friends with the enemies of the Aztecs and the Inca.
2. Superior weapns with their guns, cannons, horses, and metal weapons and armor.
3. Diseases like smallpox killed many natives.
He is the founder of Quebec, had a fur trade alliance with the Huron, and explored a lake in upstate NY
Champlain
Columbian Exchange
This is the reason that early Paleo-Indians migrated to the Americas.
They were hunter who were following the large animals (megafauna)
This is the cone-shaped tent made of buffalo skin that was used by the nomadic tribes of the Great Plains.
Teepees (tipi)
The English, Dutch, and French, when they could not find a sea route to Asia through North America, began to make a lot of money by establishing trading networks and industries in these two fields.
Pizarro